MS Office - Want To Replace Office 365

AndyBSG

The wife has a laptop which for some bizarre reason she has Office 365 installed on.

Now, I don't really know how Office 365 is different to a normal copy of Office other than that instead of paying a one off up front she is currently getting billed £79.99 a year for it meaning she has paid £240 over the last 3 years to have Office on her PC(What on Earth are the benefits of 365 that people pay this every year rather than just buy a copy on disk?)

So, I want to can this and get a copy of Office on disc.

Anyone able to tell me which version of Office I need(Only really use Excel and Word and it's only needed on this one laptop for personal use)?

Also, roughly how much should I be paying and any recommendations of cheapest place to buy it?

Fightsback

LibreOffice, it costs nothing.

AndyBSG wrote: »

(What on Earth are the benefits of 365 that people pay this every year rather than just buy a copy on disk?)

Bigger dividends for Microsoft shareholders.

GunJack

Fightsback wrote: »

LibreOffice, it costs nothing.

or, if either of you work for an organisation which participates in the microsoft home use program, you could get a full version of office (with installation dvd) for £20 .... ask your IT and/or HR bods

giraffe69

At the very least buy any Office 365 renewal from Amazon (£61 instead of £79.99).

wongataa

AndyBSG wrote: »

Now, I don't really know how Office 365 is different to a normal copy of Office other than that instead of paying a one off up front she is currently getting billed £79.99 a year for it meaning she has paid £240 over the last 3 years to have Office on her PC(What on Earth are the benefits of 365 that people pay this every year rather than just buy a copy on disk?)

With Office 365 the software you use is kept up to date meaning you are always using the latest version. With the non 365 you stay with whatever version you originally bought. Only the user can determine whether this is useful to them or not.

Apart from the free Office suites such as Libre Office you can buy the standalone home edition of MS Office which has Word and Excel.

pmartin86

The £79.99 of Office 365 is for up to 5 users, so for that, you can install on 5 PCs/Macs. It also comes with 1 TB of one drive storage (an absolute monster amount) and its available online, so you can log in and work from any machine anywhere. In comparison, a fully licensed, standalone copy of Office Pro 2016 (equivalent to 365, but without the storage and work anywhere) will cost between £280 and £390 per single license key (i.e. one install)

You can see the options here:
https://products.office.com/en-gb/buy/compare-microsoft-office-products

The idea is that you subscribe, and your monthly fee covers your whole family, gives you family storage and is perpetually updated to the latest release, and all in all, works out cheaper than the traditional options if you like to be up to date.

That being said, I would never pay what their asking, and am fortunate enough to be part of the HUP previous mentioned, if I wasn't, I'd go with the libre office suggestion.

System

giraffe69 wrote: »

At the very least buy any Office 365 renewal from Amazon (£61 instead of £79.99).

Ebuyer only £59.99 and free delivery

SuperHan

If it is Microsoft Office that you want, you want the Home&Student version with a retail price of £120. It goes on 1 laptop and includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

Looks like you can get it for just under £100 on Amazon.

ThemeOne

Some options in order of convenience:

Home User Program - as others have mentioned. Sometimes it's not very well publicised at places of work, so it's worth asking even if you've never heard about it.

Free office suite (e.g. Libre Office) - they're a lot better than they once were, though there may be valid reasons why they would not work for you.

Acquire a copy of MS Office - doesn't necessarily have to be the latest version, most users could even go back to Office 2007 (or even 2003) without missing any features, and I have personally installed Office 2007 on Windows 10 without issues.

The only thing you need to be a bit savvy about buying Office from, say, eBay, is licensing and activation.

GunJack

ThemeOne wrote: »

Acquire a copy of MS Office - doesn't necessarily have to be the latest version, most users could even go back to Office 2007 (or even 2003) without missing any features, and I have personally installed Office 2007 on Windows 10 without issues

in all honesty, most users could go back to Office 97 and still have more than enough functionality for what they need it for.... it works on W7 fine (apart from outlook, but let's face it, most people don't use it even when they've got it )

Stompa

GunJack wrote: »

in all honesty, most users could go back to Office 97 and still have more than enough functionality for what they need it for.... it works on W7 fine

It doesn't for me, I've never been able to get it successfully installed.